Chicago: Geo. K. Hazlitt, 1900. First edition. 12mo., 66 pp., (12) adverts., 5 photographic plates tipped to colored mounts, other illustrations in text. A rubbed photographic plate mounted on upper board. The title page has been reattached on a tab; several ex-library stamps. A good copy. Includes 2 portraits by... More

Paris: E. Dentu, Libraire-Éditeur, 1861. First edition. 8vo., 47 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Light soiling to the wrappers, with scattered light foxing in the text. A very good copy. Menut Alexander Alophe, 1812 - 1883, studied under Paul Delaroche and Camille Roqueplan. As Pierre-Lin Renié wrote, "Alophe epitomizes the mediocre painter... More

Paris: Librairie Plon, 1904-1908. First edition. Small 4tos., each volume approx. 700 pp., tipped-in and mounted plates, other illustrations in text, and illustrated adverts and appendices. 4 volumes: 1904, 1905, 1907 and 1908. All volumes in publisher's printed cloth, which is slightly soiled, with advert stamped on the top or... More

San Francisco: San Francisco Artspace, 1989. Babcock, Jo. First edition. Oblong 8vo., (12) pp., 10 b&w photos. Die-cut stiff wrappers. Very good. Jo Babcock transforms objects into pinhole cameras -- suitcases, paint cans, mailboxes, gallery spaces and even Volkswagen buses. Babcock received his BFA and MFA from the San Francisco... More

Garden City: Amphoto, 1973. Facsimile of 1855. with new material. 8vo., (7) 83 pp., plus illustrations. Very good in moderately soiled dust jacket. A classic in photographic literature. Bede (Bradley) wrote and illustrated this humorous instructional manual. More

Paris: Chez L'Auteur, [1861]. First edition. 16mo., 129 pp. Printed wrappers. A segment of the front wrapper, which was lacking, has been replace with no loss of text; author / title in holograph was added to the spine. A tear on the title page has been repaired on the blank... More

Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1854. First edition. 8vo., 208 pp., 3 pp. adverts. Printed wrappers, which are slightly chipped at the spine ends, with a short tear at the front joint. Scattered foxing, with a few chemical stains. A very good copy. Auguste Belloc, born in Paris in 1800, was a.... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1898. First edition. Small 8vo., viii, 139 pp. The printed paper wrappers are moderately age-toned, with a shallow crease at the lower tip and the publisher's price sticker affixed to the rear wrapper; else near fine and unopened. A complete guide to the equipment, sensitized materials... More

Livorno: Raffaello Giusti, 1878. First edition. 8vo., 250, (1) pp., 41 figures in text. Later cloth with spine label. Scattered light foxing, else very good. A practical and chemical manual which includes a summary of photographic history. More

London: Biggs and Sons, (1905). 12mo., 228, iv pp., text illustrations, plus adverts. Cloth. A small numbered paper disc is affixed to the front board. A very good copy. More

Blanquart-Évrard, [Louis Désiré]. LES COULEURS EN PHOTOGRAPHIE: CAUSERIE. Offprint from: Memoires de la Société des Sciences, de L'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille. 3rd series, volume 9. [Lille: L. Danel, 1871]. First edition. 8vo., 12 pp., with 4 photographic plates. Bound in contemporary yellow paper wrappers with the author and... More

Lille: Imprimerie L. Danel, 1869. First edition. 4to., Original printed front wrapper, 2 blanks, half-title, title, 61 pp., 14 leaves of plates with tissue guards, rear printed wrapper. Newly bound in half navy morocco and marbled paper over boards, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands and gilt titling, rules... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1889. First ed. Small 8vo., x, 146 pp., illustrated. The printed paper wrappers are chipped at the corners and lacking much of the spine; very slight occasional foxing. A good copy. Phototype was a name formerly given the photolithographic process invented by Poitevin and to a.... More